Hanatarash
Yamantaka Eye's pre-Boredoms project, notorious for genuinely dangerous performances involving power tools, backhoes, dead animals bisected on stage. 1985: Eye drove a backhoe through Tokyo's Superloft venue wall, nearly threw molotov cocktail onto gas-soaked stage before police shut it down. Required audiences to sign liability waivers. Eye nearly severed his own leg with circular saw strapped to his back, kept performing while bleeding. Led to venue bans across Japan. Eye later called it "action painting, but with a backhoe"—destruction as performance art that happened to have soundtrack. Disbanded 1998 after sporadic later performances, but established template for noise as physical confrontation, not just sonic assault.
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Hanatarashi
Documents violent noise-punk chaos of Hanatarash's early period, 1985, before they were banned from most venues. Captures the sound of on-stage destruction: power tools, screaming, metal percussion, feedback. Released after the infamous Superloft backhoe incident, representing Hanatarash at peak danger. Eye's approach was physical—noise as action, not composition. The album can't fully convey the performances (no recording captures a backhoe through a wall), but preserves the sonic chaos that accompanied Eye's destruction rituals. Established noise as performance art, not just music.